Matthew Newton wrote:
Hi

Sorry if this has come up before. I've had a look and tried all the
suggestions I can find, but nothing so far has worked.

Problem: Washing machine (Hoover SoftWave, about 8 years old) sticks
in the middle of the cycle, sometimes more than once. When it does,
it is letting water flush through the drum. This happens indefinitely
until the control is clicked around, and then continues as normal.

It normally happens (so I am told by my wife) soon after the programme
starts, and before it is going to do its final spin. I guess,
therefore, when it is filling up at the beginning, and for the final
rinse. It doesn't always do it, though.

We had this recently, and most people thought it was the programmer -
however on another list someone suggested that it was syphoning, whereby the
output hose was pushed too far down the drain pipe, allowing water to be
drawn out by syphoning. This means that when the machine is filling, it
never fills and so keeps adding water. It also co-incided (looking back
now) with me pushing the hose further down the drain when I was doing
something else.

Ours was intermittant too - but since doing it (week or so) we've not had a
problem.

May be a nice, cheap and easy solution.

David